NewsOne Now Audio Podcast: US Cops On Target To Kill More Than 1000 Americans In 2015

US Cop Killings Expected to Exceed 1000 By The End Of 2015, With Blacks Twice As Likely To Die

A new Washington Post report has revealed that the United States is on track to reach 1,100 fatal shootings by police. Six months into the year, the Post’s database had recorded 463 fatal shootings by Police.

On Thursday, NewsOne Now guest host Mo Ivory talked with The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery and the Straight Talk Panel about the disturbing report.

Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush believes the Ferguson and Baltimore protests were caused by a lack of “mentoring” and parenting.

According to ThinkProgress.com, during a Q&A with employees of a pharmaceutical company, Bush made the following comments:

“Kids in this country are aimlessly wandering around in their lives because they’ve never been told they were capable of learning. They’ve never been challenged to achieve far better. They’ve never really had the kind of mentoring and nurturing that gives them the sense their lives could be better. You see what happens in Baltimore and Ferguson. You see the tragedies play out. You see people becoming so despondent they take actions that are horrific.”

On Thursday, NewsOne Now guest host Mo Ivory and the Straight Talk Panel discussed Bush’s interesting remarks, during which he never took the time to acknowledge the untimely deaths of Mike Brown and Freddie Gray at the hands of police that preceded the social unrest.

Bush did not even address the way police in those communities have shown a history of racial bias against African-American residents as potential triggers leading up to the protests.

WTH?! Thursday: Man Travels 300 Miles In A Cab For Love, Arrested For Not Paying The $749 Fare

It’s WTH?! Thursday on NewsOne Now and we’re taking look at all of the crazy stories trending in this week’s News.

This week’s list of insanity begins with a New York City man taking a 300-mile cab ride across Pennsylvania to surprise his fiancee. The act of love went wrong when he was arrested for not paying the $749 fare.

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A group of proud Confederate flag waving pick-up truck drivers in Georgia were caught on camera displaying their Confederate pride and crashing into each other even thought local area police had blocked an intersection to allow their “Southern pride” rally to pass through. Uh-oh better get Maaco.

Listen to all of the insanity listed in this week’s edition of WTH?! Thursday on the NewsOne Now Audio Podcast.